Ran a file merge and other than some htaccess stuff (IP addresses), there are no differences.
Copied the production based theme to the development server and search results worked correctly which suggests that the issue is in the WP core and not in the theme.
All same plugins on both sites.
Spent the morning, merging dev vs. live/production sites and other than a few htacess IP differences the directories and files within are identical. So, must be a setting.
Same theme because I always test latest in dev before uploading to production.
Added above code to put,php with URL to my site:
http://mysite.edu/jquery/css/
and does not work, so I tried pointing to specific jquery theme:
http://mysite.edu/jquery/css/ui-lightness
and still does not work.
What might I be doing wrong.